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Underground Spaces Unveiled:
Planning and creating cities of the future
Underground spaces are typlically overlooked or neglected in the quest for developing compact, energy-efficient, resilient and liveable cities writes Dr Joan Clos, Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN-Habitat in her foreword of the Underground Spaces Unveiled publication. As well as the architectural and technical issues of creating underground infrastructure, the legal status of space ownership beneath private surface property and other legal and governance constraints are discussed.
Written by Han Admiraal and Antonia Cornaro, the chapters provide a balanced view of the concept of underground space development, the book addresses the
issues, explores the potential and expands the horizon of urban possibilities. Documenting the use of underground space from ancient times, through existing underground developments, to plans for integration of subsurface space for cities across the globe, the book reveals the benefits, the challenges, and the possibilities of a spatial dimension that is far from understood in its entirety. It places urban underground space development within the timely context of rapid urbanisation, climate change, and urban resilience.
The book is a must read for all those fascinated by the future of human habitation, about this era of transition in which human intervention is influencing the Earth’s natural systems, about the new balance that must be found between nature and humanity, and about new paradigms that question the past and will shape the future. True to its title, the authors help lift the veil of ignorance that covers general attitudes towards the value of the underutilized underground space. Order online for £70.00 at the ICE Bookshop. n
History of Tunneling in the United States
A chronicle of 200 years of tunnelling and underground space development in the United States is presented in a lush coffee table book produced and compiled by the US Underground Construction Association (UCA) and published by its host
organisation the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME).
The book, with a timeline
of milestones, takes the
reader on a journey from the
early days of building a nation
and the role that tunnelling
and underground public
infrastructure has played
during that remarkable
journey, covering railroad, transit, highway, water and tunnels. Two further chapters discuss innovations and the Future of Tunneling.
Order this beautifully crafted and comprehensively illustrated book for your private bookshelf or company library via the UCA of SME online order form. The US$259.00 ($129 to UCA members) is an investment in understanding the building of the United States of America and the underground solutions to urban and national infrastructure challenges in each period of that history. n
Index of Advertisers in the TunnelTalk 2017 Annual Review
AGIR Aggregat AG
Antraquip
Babendererde - TPC Tunnelling Process Control BASF - The Chemical Company
Brokk
CREG - China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Dibit Messtechnik GmbH
Dr Sauer & Partners
DSI Underground - Dywidag-Systems International ES Rubber Group
Gall Zeidler Consultants
Geodata Engineering
Geodata Surveying & Monitoring Group
H+E Logistik GmbH
Herrenknecht AG
HNTB
ITC SA
Lane Construction
Lovsuns
Mayr
Moretrench
Normet
Optimas
Royal IHC
Ruen Drilling Incorporated
Sandvik
Schöma Lokomotiven
Shotcrete Technologies, Inc.
tacs GmbH
Terratec
The Robbins Company
Tsurumi (Europe) GmbH
Tyco Fire Protection Products
UTT Mapei
VMT GmbH
WTC2019 Naples
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www.agir-aggregat.com www.antraquip.net tpc.tunnelsoft.com www.master-builders-solutions.com www.brokk.com
www.crectbm.com
www.dibit.at
www.dr-sauer.com www.dsi-tunneling.com www.esrubber.com www.gzconsultants.com
www.geodata.it
www.geodata.com
www.helogistik.de www.herrenknecht.com
www.hntb.com
www.itcsa.com
www.laneconstruct.com www.lovsuns.com
www.mayr.com
www.moretrench.com
www.normet.com www.global.optimas.com/services/tunnels www.royalihc.com/tunnelling www.ruendrilling.com www.construction.sandvik.com www.schoema.de www.shotcretetechnologies.com www.tacsgmbh.de
www.terratec.co www.therobbinscompany.com www.tsurumi.eu www.tycofpp.com/tunnels www.utt.mapei.com www.vmt-gmbh.de www.wtc2019.com
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